I am looking at the secure disposal of old flash drives, and one of the standards I have come across says that they should be overwritten three times. Why is one time not enough? I assume doing the ...

If I am trying to destroy a single file, what is the best method?
shred -uvz -n500 file
dd if=/dev/null of=file
dd if=/dev/zero of=file
I hexdumped a file that was in the middle of shredding, and it ...

Scenario: I just took 1 page of text (.odt) and copied it into a plain text document, that happens to result in a 3KB file.
With that as a random size criteria for discussion, CAN code be written to ...

True Scenario:
Representatives from the GCHQ went into The Guardian newspaper corporate office in London and demanded top secret data (leaked by Edward Snowden) be returned to authorities. The senior ...

Does a self destructing HDD (physically destruction) that will destroy after a certain time exist, or when I use some software to initiate its self-destruction?
I guess it need to be set in BIOS or ...

I want to use laptop which doesn’t save any data, history, passwords anywhere in it. All state information should be destroyed once it turned off or rebooted without removing my ability to use the OS ...

Can this be done safely?
I want to print 2 pdf’s containing personal/banking information from a computer at work. It has CrashPlan Pro running and I don’t want a copy of the files to be made that I ...

I was pondering about this, sometimes people ask me to erase data on their drive. So I use a shredding program, which takes a long time. However what if instead of shredding all the files, I'd just ...

How do you destroy an old hard drive? To be clear, unlike questions Secure hard drive disposal: How to erase confidential information and How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive? I do ...

Any material I've come up with for data destruction standards relate to completely wiping (ATA Secure Erase) and physically destroying hard drives, but I haven't been able to find much about standards ...

Say you were in charge of getting rid of a large quantity of paper - up to 1,000 in a row. It can't be used as scratch paper because it contains confidential information. It also can't be outsourced ...

As storage technologies change over time, using different encodings and remappings to deal with sector errors, the best way to permanently erase/wipe/shred data changes also.
Methods for flash drives ...

Obviously this is very open-ended. But, I'm just paranoid about people going through everything on my laptop after I leave my job. Here are the things I'm planning to do:
Completely wipe all browser ...

When it comes to disposing of hardware that may contain PII, confidential, or other sensitive material, how do you determine what needs special handling? What process do you use?
I'd like to expand ...